From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sat May 29 08:32:29 2010 Message-ID: <4C0108C8.90300@atari-source.org> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 08:30:00 -0400 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] CTPCI - be careful References: <4BF5D7E6.3050402@atari-source.org> <201005202248.22171.darklord@suddenlink.net> <4BF5F945.7000104@atari-source.org> <4BF5FF78.40800@atari-source.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 5/29/10 7:43 AM, Paul Wratt wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Mark Duckworth > wrote: > >> On 5/20/10 11:08 PM, Mark Duckworth wrote: >> >>> On 5/20/10 10:48 PM, Ronald J. Hall wrote: >>> >>>> On Thursday 20 May 2010 08:46 pm, Mark Duckworth wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey guys, >>>>> >>>>> Tonight I fried at very least my falcon, CT60, and CTPCI. I'm probably >>>>> not going to do much over the summer. I'm pretty disgusted with myself >>>>> and the situation. It actually caught on fire :( What happened was I >>>>> must not have bent the falcon mainboard connectors over far enough and >>>>> one of them pierced the ribbon cable that goes from pci board to ctpci. >>>>> The whole thing lit up like fireworks :( I'm very very upset over this. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Mark >>>>> >>>> Geez Mark - I'm sorry to hear that man... :( >>>> >>>> >>> Unbelievably, I took my board out of the case, methodically looked it >>> over, fixed a break in the clock patch and the falcon and ct60 still work! >>> This thing was on FIRE. Assuming all parts of both things work, then my >>> losses are max ctpci and radeon card. I guess we'll see.. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> >> CTPCI still works (well it is recognized anyway). I don't know what I lit >> on fire but clearly it wasn't important. The trace that lit didn't even >> blow. It just glowed and burned all of the pcb material along its path. >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> >> > Howd it go Mark, have you got it up and running yet? what about the CTPCI > > Paul > > > Well falcon and ct60 are very fine. All subsystems on both check out. The CTPCI however doesn't work and actually causes chips on PCI cards to get hot. I am using a different CTPCI now. (Rodolphe for whatever reason sent me 2 so I'll just use the other and pay him for it I guess). All in all a minor loss when you consider the drama of the situation. I just hope everyone else takes a step back and thinks before they switch things on unlike me. Thanks, Mark